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    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.misc on Fri Oct 16 21:39:32 2026
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    Interesting subject line for a scam email, don’t you think? But that’s
    what I just got.

    I suspect that was the AI prompt they used to generate it, and simply copy/pasted it all into the message.
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  • From JJ@[email protected] to comp.misc on Sat Oct 17 12:21:05 2026
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    On Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:39:32 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D�Oliveiro wrote:
    Interesting subject line for a scam email, don�t you think? But that�s
    what I just got.

    I suspect that was the AI prompt they used to generate it, and simply copy/pasted it all into the message.

    That's the usual scare tactics used by businesses.

    But hey, at least the AI is honest...
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@[email protected] to comp.misc on Sat Oct 17 06:19:04 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:21:05 +0700, JJ wrote:

    But hey, at least the AI is honest...

    Reminds me of the time in “Red Dwarf” when Lister was trying to teach Kryten not to be so honest all the time.

    Trouble was, every time he was about to tell a lie, he had a tendency
    to announce that he was engaging “lie mode” ...
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